I have *coff* a couple of decks that were made by scanning (at very hi res) and then printing onto thinner, but very good quality paper. Then the sheets were laminated in thin matte pouches. After cutting the cards out, each was put through the laminator again to re-seal the edges.
I hasten to add that I (or rather, my husband) only copied two OOP decks where the artist could not be contacted about copyright (Greenwood and Granny Jones), and one deck where I did contact the artist and got the OK (Ironwing). I have to say that in all three cases I actually prefer the home-mades to the originals.
Our first bash at the Ironwing used a different card stock and we didn't laminate, but used an acrylic spray instead. We sprayed each card individually several times and were careful to let them dry thoroughly between sprays. I didn't like the end result - it felt wrong. I don't know why, but I just didn't like it so went back to the drawing board. Eventually we came up with the thin, very good quality card and the matte pouches.
It is important to put the laminated cards through the laminator a second time once they have been cut out of the sheet, and had their corners rounded. This re-seals the edges and stops them peeling apart. Note that corner rounding a laminated card is tedious. The corner rounders only do one card at a time - any more and they get mangled.
